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Topic: home-keeping
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somommy66
Knowflake Posts: 13
From: Shaker Heights, OH, USA
Registered: Jan 2007
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posted January 11, 2007 07:29 AM
 
Desert-rain, I hear you! I have been a stay-at-home Mom for six years, and I am just beginning to work outside the home a little again. My first-born was and is very high need indeed, and I also consider my style as attachment parenting. You've gotten lots of great suggestions, but I would just add one more: relax. Do your best to keep your home clean but be realistic. I learned to attack chores in small chunks, set up a cleaning rotation,and understand that there will never again be a time when everything is clean all at once! You are so right to make your baby your priority. He will grow up faster than you can imagine, and you will treasure all the time you spent with him when he was so tiny and needed you so very much. We don't get paid for being good Moms, and most of the time it seems like people don't even notice what we do. But we get the best reward of all - the love of our children. Bless you.IP: Logged |
naiad
Knowflake Posts: 452
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Registered: Sep 2006
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posted January 12, 2007 08:56 AM
somommy ~ thanks for reading my thread!  (new screen name since desert-rain)  IP: Logged |
somommy66
Knowflake Posts: 13
From: Shaker Heights, OH, USA
Registered: Jan 2007
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posted January 12, 2007 01:23 PM
naiad - yeah, I figured out later that you had changed your screen name. This is my first venture into message boards - I'm really kind of Amish when it comes to technology! Happy cleaning... or not.IP: Logged |
sue g
Knowflake Posts: 8285
From: former land of the leprechaun
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted January 21, 2007 11:04 AM
Quentin Crisp said(on domesticity) After four years, the dust doesn't get any worse. haha.... Sorry guys, I tend to do as little as I can get away with.... I lived with a mother who was always cleaning and ironing and baking and cooking.. She has passed now...and I am somehow left with the feeling she didnt spend much time doing the "important" things....  IP: Logged |
naiad
Knowflake Posts: 452
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Registered: Sep 2006
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posted January 21, 2007 11:52 PM
thank you for that perspective sue...  even though babe is 4, and this thread began when he was 1, i still struggle with the very same issues! our lifestyle is my choice though, and very close to my heart....i will let him choose when to discontinue nursing, but at present, he still does so quite a lot, every day....a little more consuming of my resources than i had expected....but i wish to focus on what's important as well. we do our best.  nice words.  IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 24091
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted January 24, 2007 04:56 PM
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"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll IP: Logged |
naiad
Knowflake Posts: 452
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Registered: Sep 2006
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posted January 25, 2007 12:35 AM
lol....just as i was reading this thread, my babe approached me and demanded to take the place of my laptop in my lap and get 'nummies'.... he's begun calling me his 'pretty mama.' and today i asked him -- "what does love mean?" he replied, without hesitation... "it is your heart. right here." and patted his hand over his chest. "love is your heart." indeed it is. IP: Logged |
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